Bevis v Illinois - assault weapons (ar 15) ban

A federal appeals court panel ruled Friday 2-1 that Illinois’ “assault weapons”/semiautomatic weapons ban is constitutional, meaning the case is likely now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Friday’s ruling came as a bit of a surprise given the conservative makeup of the Seventh Circuit’s three-judge panel.

“Notably, the majority was composed of conservative judge Frank Easterbook and liberal judge Diane P. Wood. Conservative judge Michael P. Brennan dissented,” according to legal scholar Jonathan Turley.

In his dissent, Brennan wrote that the state and local governments that had enacted the bans “failed to meet their burden to show that their bans are part of the history and tradition of firearms regulation.”

According to WLS, he also “ripped his colleagues’ ‘remarkable’ conclusion that personal ownership of assault-style weapons and high-powered magazines is not protected by the Second Amendment.”

“The AR-15 is a civilian, not military, weapon. No army in the world uses a service rifle that is only semiautomatic. Even so, the majority opinion uses a civilian firearm’s military counterpart to determine whether it is an ‘Arm,'” he reportedly wrote.
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